M-Voting

M-Voting (An alternate of e-voting):Mobile technology has attained heights and the market trend is that every citizens of India will possess a mobile handset by the year 2010 (at cheaper rates of service.) When such a PDA is available why not using it for a time saving, cost effective, secured method of voting.The concept is as follows:

¢ Every citizen above the age of 18 years has got the right to vote and hence obtaining their fingerprints and storing in the database along with their birth/death record becomes necessary.¢ User sends his finger print (secured print is encrypted and sent as sequence of data in encoded form) to the service provider.¢ Service provider verifies the fingerprint and checks for the validity of voting and sends voter list (a mobile ballot paper) through SMS.¢ User casts his vote and sends 2nd message.

Since mobile phone has connectivity with computer systems it is easy to store and access at the service provider and results be published instantly.